911 briefs -- Published May 14, 2013

STOCKTON - Firefighters responding to a water leak at a home in Weston Ranch on Sunday afternoon discovered a marijuana-growing operation and called police.

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By The Record

Posted May. 14, 2013 at 12:01 AM

By The Record

Posted May. 14, 2013 at 12:01 AM

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STOCKTON - Firefighters responding to a water leak at a home in Weston Ranch on Sunday afternoon discovered a marijuana-growing operation and called police.

Stockton police detectives began an investigation at the home in the 3300 block of Grayhouse Lane following the 4:25 p.m. discovery of 160 marijuana plants being cultivated inside the single-family home. No arrests had been made as of Monday afternoon.

COPPEROPOLIS - A teenager from Ripon suffered major injuries when the off-road dune buggy he was driving overturned Sunday afternoon on private property in the Copperopolis area of Calaveras County, the California Highway Patrol reported.

Luke VanVliet, 15, was the only occupant of the 2007 dune buggy. He was operating it in a private dirt field in the 2000 block of Horseshoe Drive about 3:30 p.m., following a trail. As he turned to the right, the all-terrain vehicle rolled onto the driver's side, and VanVliet stuck his arm out in an attempt to stop the vehicle, the CHP reported.

It came to rest on the driver's side, sending the teen to Sonora Regional Medical Center with an unspecified major injury, according to authorities.

RIPON - Police were called to the Ripon Community Center, 334 W. Fourth St., about 1:45 p.m. Monday to investigate a suspicious suitcase discovered by a city maintenance worker.

The worker found the suitcase in a strange position near the youth baseball field and observed something suspicious inside before calling authorities. When police arrived, they secured the area and called in the Manteca police bomb squad and the Ripon Fire Department.

Upon further examination, the suspicious item was determined not to be an explosive device, but the incident remains under investigation, authorities reported.

STOCKTON - Staff at Sierra Middle School in the Lincoln Unified School District alerted a school resource officer about 11:30 a.m. Monday that a student might have brought a gun to school.

The officer found the 13-year-old student and removed him from a classroom. The student admitted to bringing a BB pistol to school, and it was in his backpack and seized. It was not loaded, according to police.

The student, whose name was not released because of his age, was arrested, cited and released to a relative.